Wikipedia:WikiProject Council/Proposals/Modernism


 * The following discussion is an archived proposal of the WikiProject below. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page (such as the project's talk page (if created) or the WikiProject Council).  No further edits should be made to this page.

The proposed WikiProject was not created

Description

 * The problem of distinguishing between modernism in literature, art, music, architecture, religion, or other aspects of culture is well-known, and Wikipedia's disambiguation page for Modernism (disambiguation) indicates that the problem takes a unique form in online reference works such as Wikipedia. When a variety places outside 20th-century Europe and North America are introduced to the equation, the problem becomes even more complex, as new articles on Modernismo, Modernisme, and other movements have begun to document. Finally, many readers, writers, and scholars have begun to question the distinctions traditionally made by terms such as modernist, postmodern, premodern, etc.


 * Wikipedia seems like the perfect place to explore these contradictions and changing ideas. The goal of this WikiProject would be to document the literature and culture of modernity with greater attention to transnational or global, multimedia, and interdisciplinary dimensions. The particular focus, at least to begin with, would be on the amazing variety of articles on literary modernism (pages focused on particular texts and authors) that already exist.


 * A two-pronged approach could simultaneously connect the existing dots while adding new points of interest:


 * 1) Expand existing categories and more strongly integrate existing articles focused on literary modernism to highlight the international, multimedia, and interdisciplinary milieu of the writers and their works.
 * 2) Create new articles on less-known figures and books according to the excellent programs established by projects such as WikiProject__Biography/Arts_and_entertainment and WikiProject_Books, WikiProject_ Novels, and WikiProject_Literature.


 * Finally, an important way of pursuing this goal would be to encourage greater collaboration between Wikipedia editors, students and scholars of modernism, and general readers.

List of important pages and categories for this proposed group
 * modernist_novels (37)
 * category (57)
 * category (9)
 * modernist_novels (37)
 * category (57)
 * category (9)


 * List of WikiProjects currently on the talk pages of those articles
 * Please invite these and any other similar groups to join the discussion about this proposal. See WikiProject_Council/Directory to find similar WikiProjects.


 * WikiProject Biography/Arts and entertainment
 * WikiProject Biography/Arts and entertainment
 * WikiProject Biography/Arts and entertainment
 * WikiProject Biography/Arts and entertainment


 * Why do you want to start a new group, instead of joining one of these existing groups?
 * General pages on Modernity and Modernism have many strengths, while the increasingly international scope of modernist studies could make contributions to pages such as Modernismo, Modernisme, or many other movements, locations, and trends. The multimedia character of modernism has also begun to be documented in pages such as Literary modernism, Modernism (art), Modernism (music), or Modernism (architecture).


 * There are excellent pages on authors and their books, such as the FA-class James Joyce or The Sun Also Rises, the GA-class Winesburg, Ohio (novel), etc. However, many articles on less famous modernist writers are still at Start Class, for example Jean Rhys, and even many of the best-known works by modernist writers are also at Start-Class or sometimes C-Class, for example Virginia Woolf's A Room of One's Own.

Support
Also, specify whether or not you would join the project.
 * 1) Ryanweb (talk) 15:23, 15 May 2014 (UTC)
 * 2) --Fadesga (talk) 01:59, 1 February 2016 (UTC)

Discussion

 * The above discussion is preserved as an archive of the debate. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page (such as the project's talk page (if created) or at the WikiProject Council). No further edits should be made to this page.